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HEPOB.T  OP  THE  TRUSTEES. 

AND    THE 

flip  IB  IS  (DEE  ©W  8.  mi*  m©wm£©H9  esq., 

ON   THE    SUBJECT    OF  THE 

MASONIC  SEMINARY. 


Grand  Lodge  of  North  Carolina,  Ealeigh,  Dec,  7,  1848. 
Bro.  J.  M.  Lovejoy,  on  behalf  of  the  Trustees  of  the 
Masonic  Seminary,  presented  the  following  report,  which 
was  read  and  adopted ;  and,  on  motion,  ordered  that  two 
thousand  copies  thereof,  accompanied  with  the  remarks  of- 
Bro.  Lovejoy  and  the  plan  heretofore  adopted  for  raising 
funds,  be  printed  in  pamphlet  form  for  distribution  among 
the  subordinate  Lodges: 

The  Trustees  of  the  Grand  Lodge,  and  the  Subordinate 
Lodges,  upon  whom  devolves  the  transaction  of  any  busi- 
ness, in  regard  to  a  Seminary  of  Learning,  have  had  a 
meeting-,  and  beg  leave  to  report.  The  following  sums  have 
been  raised  by  subscription  and  appropriation,  viz 

Hiram  Lodge, 

Wake  Forest  Lodge,  Cten  dollars  paid), 
<   Concord  Lodge,  (fifty  paid),  ... 

1    Greensboro'  Lodge,  (twenty  paid), 
'   Pittsboro'  Lodge,    -        -    '     - 
Bellemont  Lodge,  (forty  paid)    - 

"Wentworth  Lodge, 

Fellowship  Lodge, 


$1000 
260 
150 
100 
200 
200 
75 
50 


77 

200 

10 


Grand  Lodge,  (half  the  funds  on  hand), 

St.  John's  Lodge, 

Brother  Gott,  (ten  dollars  paid),      - 

Whole  amount,  $2322 

The  Trustees   are  obliged  to  state,   that  many  of  the 

Lodges  have  not  acted  with  that  promptness  and  decision, 

which  the  subject  requires.     Yet  they  think  that  it  proceeds, 


not  from  the  want  of  a  proper  spirit  of  liberality,  but  from 
inability  in  some,  while  others  have  not  given  this  great  un- 
dertaking that  strict  and  candid  examination,  which  its  im- 
portance demands.  Doubtless  our  brethren  throughout  the 
State,  use  their  best  exertions  to  confer  the  benefits  of  in- 
struction upon  the  destitute  of  our  order,  who  live  within 
the  jurisdiction  of  their  Lodges.  Rut  still  there  are  many, 
and  ever  must  be,  whom  their  efforts  cannot  reach.  And 
they  must  grow  upas  others  have  done  before  them,  depri- 
ved of  intellectual  and  moral  culture,  and  bend  their  necks 
to  the  galling  yoke  of  poverty  and  ignorance.  This  hono- 
rable body  has  decided,  that  an  institution  ought  to  be  es- 
tablished, which  shall  bestow  a  sound  and  practical  educa- 
tion   upon  all  our  destitute   and  unfortunate     children 

which  shall  take  them  by  the   hand  and  lead  them  up  to 
the  pleasant  places  of  wisdom,  of  morality  and  religion. — 
We  believe  that  this  body  should  still   move  onward  in  the 
pursuit  of  its   great   and   iinportant  purpose.     We  recom- 
mend that  it  take  some  action  to  inform  the  different  Lodges 
that  their  money  will  be  refunded  if  this  seminary  is  not  es- 
tablished.    We  further  urgently  recommend,  that  some  suit- 
able person  be  appointed,  to  travel  through  the  State,  and 
bring  this  subject  to  the  heart  of  every  Mason.    And  that 
he  obtain  subscriptions  and  sell  scholarships,  until  the  sum 
at  least  of  ten  thousand  dollars  be  raised.     Your  Trustees 
believe  this  sum  can  be  easily  raised,  especially,  if  Masons 
will  consider,  they  are  giving  nothing  away,  but  are  buil- 
ding up  a  house  of  refuge,  for  their  children,  in  the  storms 
of  adversity — an   institution,  which  shall  spread  its  wings 
over  the  Fraternity,  when  we   are  gone,  and  cause  it  to 
stand  forth,  a  noble  and  beautiful  structure,  to  the  eye  of  the 
world — an  institution,  from  which  shall  diverge  the  splen- 
dor of  our  order,  attracting  the  eye  of  intelligence,  from  eve- 
ry part  of  the  country — a  house,  in  which   the  destitute 
shall  be  comforted,  and  receive  consolation  and  instruction 
— an  institution,  to  which  Masons  can  point  with  a  just  pride, 
and  feel  cheered  in  having  done  their  duty — an  institution, 
where  the  spirit  of  our  order  shall  preside,  and  who  shall  show 
us  something,  whun  we  meet  her  there,  besides  our  forms  and 
ceremonies — who  shall  show  us  the  work  she  has  done,  and 
point  us  to  the  mind  trained  to  virtue,  and  fitted  for  an  immor- 
tal destiny — who  shall  stretch  forth  her  hand,  and  draw  to  her- 
self that  poor  boy,  who  is  now  toiling  to  gain  a  scanty  subsist- 


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cnce,  and  whose  young  arm  and  feeble  efforts  are  all  that  are 
left  to  cheer  the  desolate  heart  of  his  widowed  mother — both, 
.both  of  whorr,  we  have  most  solemnly  declared  to  support 
and  cherish.  Look  at  that  family:  that  woman's  husband  was 
our  brother.  She  too  is  our  sister;  and  that  poor  boy,  crushed 
by  adversity  and  ignorance,  is  our  son.  The  arm  which  sup- 
ported that  family  has  failed,  and  the  stout  heart  which  put 
itself  between  them  and  the  world  is  cold.  Their  /ew  ef- 
fects have  been  sold  to  saiisfy  the  demands  of  creditors  and 
the  law.  Comfort  and  cherfulness,  which  were  wont  to  be 
there,  are  gone,  and  in  their  place  are  want  and  hunger.— 
And  that  poor  boy  is  doomed  to  toil  on — to  toil  on — forever, 
with  no  cheerful  prospects  before  him,  the  darkness  of 
whose  mind  can  build  up  no  brilliant  hopes  for  the  future. — 
This  is  not  fancy;  it  is  truth.  We  know  that  the  substance 
of  a  man  is  often  wasted  at  his  death,  either  for  want  of 
proper  management,  or  from  the  swift  tricks  of  knavery  and 
deceit.  That  his  house  and  his  estate  go  into  the  hands  of 
another;  that  his  children  are  driven  forth  and  cast  upon  the 
charity  of  an  indifferent  world,  while  the  hearth,  where 
they  leceived  the  advice  and  counsel  of  parents,  and  their 
benediction  at  death,  can  gather  them  together  no  more. — 
But  such  will  this  institution  gather  together,  and  educate, 
and  send  forth,  to  benefit  the  world;  to  become  useful  men 
— useful  to  themselves,  useful  to  society,  and  useful  to  our 
order.  It  is  the  business  of  men,  in  their  generation,  to 
prepare  the  young  to  succeed  them.  Every  act  in  life,  in  a 
worldly  point  ot  view,  amounts  to  this  and  nothing  more. 
Laws,  commerce,  agriculture,  institutions  of  learning,  and 
every  kind  of  employment,  in  which  men  are  engaged,  all 
are  directed  to  this  one,  great  end— the  promotion  of  the  in- 
terest and  welfare  ot  the  next  generation.  Suppose  the 
question  is  put  to  a  father,  why  he  subjects  himself  to  so 
much  toil  and  anxiety,  to  accumulate  a  little  property?  lie 
immediately  answers,  to  educate  and  support  my  children, 
when  I  am  gone.  But  suppose  he  is  told,  that  by  paying 
an  annual  sum  to  a  certain  institution,  the  education  of  his 
children  shall  be  secured,  whatever  may  happen  and  howev- 
er soon  he  may  die  ;  what  does  he  say?  Does  he  say  I  shall 
not  do  this?  No  !  He  says  no  such  thing.  But  he  says, 
tell  me  the  terms  of  your  institution,  tor  if  I  can  save  the 
sum  required,  after  the  wants  of  my  family  are  supplied,  I 
will  close  with  her.  Now  the  seminary,  which  we  wish  to 
establish,  makes,  to  every  one  of  us,  this  very  proposition. 


Shall  we  close  the  bargain?  If  we  do,  she  surely  will  not 
disappoint  us.  But,  we  think,  that  the  honor  of  belonging 
to  an  order  like  ours,  should  induce  every  one  to  do  his  du- 
ty :  the  greatest,  most  venerable,  and  the  most  noble  in* 
stitution,  that  has  ever  been  established  by  man :  the 
greatest,  because  it  has  been  supported  by  the  wisdom  of  the 
world  and  the  greatest  men  of  all  ages  :  the  most  venera- 
ble, because  it  has  existed  from  time  immemorial :  and  the 
most  noble,  because  it  has  conferred  more  good  upon  man- 
kind, than  any  institution  of  a  like  nature.  Truth  and  jus- 
tice are  attributes  of  Deity.  On  these  are  our  order  found- 
ed. Consequently,  it  always  must  receive,  always  has  re- 
ceived the  protection  of  Providence.  For  how  could  this 
institution  have  remained  so  long  unimpaired,  still  moving 
on,  still  exerting  its  influeuce  upon  the  world,  if  it  had  not 
been  protected  by  Heaven?  While  other  institutions,  gov- 
ernments, and  great  empires  have  arisen,  flourished  and  pas- 
sed away,  this  still  stands  firm.  Time  has  not  put  his  fin- 
der upon  it,  nor  made  one  rent  in  its  fair  structure.  If 
this  order  is  not  founded  upon  truth  and  right,  it  is  founded 
upon  wrong  and  evil  principles.  But  if  evil  is  its  founda- 
tion, it  would  have  long  ago  destroyed  it;  for  the  very  es- 
sence of  evil  is  its  tendency  to  destroy.  It  seeks,  it  loves,  it 
will  do,  nothing  else;  its  very  definition  is  destruction.  On 
the  other  hand,  truth,  and  justice,  and  right  seek  to  build  up, 
to  harmonise  tmd  beautify  the  world.  And  this  is  what  the 
spirit  of  Masonry  does.  How  does  she  do  this?  By  super- 
intending the  woik;  by  infusing  herself  into  the  hearts  of 
her  children,  and  pointing  the  way  to  virtue  and  excellence, 
in  whatever  is  worthy  of  the  esteem  and  admiration  of  man. 
And  shall  we  leave  her  alone  and  unassisted  in  her  beauti- 
ful temple,  and  give  ourselves  to  idleness  and  iwdifference? 
She  stands  before  us,  the  representative  of  ages,  and  talks 
to  us  of  «the  good  she  has  done:  Of  the  millions  ot  hearts 
she  has  made  glad — of  her  doings  in  civilizing  the  world 
— of  her  resistance  to  tyranny — of  the  benevolent  in- 
stitutions she  has  founded;  and  how  she  presided  in  the 
courts  of  Chivalry  and  sent  forth  her  sons  to  rescue 
those  crushed  down  by  the  heel  of  lawlessness  and  op- 
pression. Brethren,  you  know,  as  well  as  we  who  address 
you  the  necessity  and  utility  of  this  Seminary.  You  know 
that  yon  are  able  to  do  much,  and  have  done  nothing.  You 
know,  that  this  institution,  if  founded,  will  become  a  secure 


and  powerful  protector  to  your  children,  when  you,  who 
may  now  be  full  of  life  and  health  and  hope,  shall  be  as  no- 
thing. 

Brethren  !  must  we  found  this  Seminary  or  must  we  fail? 
an  institution  which  shall  become  the  glory  of  our  order 
and  pay  us  an  hundred  fold  ;  which  sjjall  send  forth  its 
voice  toother  States,  and  tell  them  that  we  are  at  length  a- 
roused  to  a  sense  of  the  deep  responsibilities  which  devolve 
upon  u*!  Brethren,  shall  we  found  this  Seminary,  that  Char- 
ity, as  she  passes  on  her  way  to  the  North,  to  the  South, 
to'  the  East  and  the  West,  to  visit  institutions  of  benevolence 
m  other  States,  may  take  note  of  our  doings  also,  and  leave 
us  her  blessing,  as  she  ascends  to  heaven,  to  hand  in  our 
deeds  to  be  recorded  with  those  of  the  wise  and  good,  and 
to  be  sealed  up  to  the  great  day  of  God?  And  when  she 
stands  by  the  side  of  that  terrible  angel>  who  shall  break 
those  seals,  and  holds  her  finger  to  the  spot  where  our  acts 
of  benovolence  are  written,  think  ye  not — think  ye  not — 
that  her  plea  will  be  strong  and  mighty  in  behalf  of  erring 
humanity? 

IF,  SPEIGHT. 

WILLIAM  GOTT. 

€•  W.  D.  HUTCHINGS, 

W.  H.  MEAD, 

J.  F.  RHODES, 

J.  M.LOVE  JOY, 

W.  F  COLLINS, 

WM.  G.  HILL, 


'Trustees 
^"present. 


SPEECH  OF  J.   M.  LOVEJOY. 

The  foregoing  report  having  been  read,  Bro.  LOVEJOY 
said — 

This  subject  has  been  discussed  tor  years,  and  able  men 
have  given  it  their  talents,  their  time,  and  their  anxious  con- 
sideration. Consequently,  I  expect  not  to  enlighten  this 
body,  in  regard  to  the  utility  of  this  institution,  or  the  im- 
portance of  education.  But  lest  I  should  seem  to  have  giv- 
en myself  to  idleness,  because  acting  with  many,  or  to  en- 
tertain the  idea  that  numbers  lessen  the  weight  of  individual 
responsibility,  I  am  determined,  for  once,  to  forget  the  re- 
luctance which  forbids  me  to  speak  in  public,  and  seize  this 
subject  with  my  whole  soul.  Numbers  diminish  not  the 
weight  of  individual  responsibility:  the  laws  of  nature  and 


of  matt  refute  the  idea.  Nature  has  no  such  page  in  her 
hook:  the  leaves,  the  flowers,  the  insects,  the  birds  and  the 
very  rocks,  which  hold  the  earth  together,  declare  it  false. 
When  ihe  ant  turns  sluggard  and  basks  itself  in  the  sun, 
and  when  the  bee  ceases  to  labour,  because  there  are  many; 
when  the  leaf  hushes  its  whispers,  because  the  forest  is 
singing  to  the  evening  breeze;  and  the  rocks  fly  from  their 
places  and  tear  the  earth  asunder;  when  the  evening  star 
goes  back  into  the  chambers  of  night,  because  millions  are 
rolling  round  the  throne  of  the  Eternal;  when  the  planets 
dash  off  from  their  orbits  and  leave  the  sun  solitary  in  the 
midst  of  heaven;  then,  and  not  till  then,  will  natnre  teach 
this  lesson.  When  shall  we  act  with  energy?  shall  we 
svait  six  months,  a  year,  or  two  years?  shall  we  wait  until 
those  we  wish  to  benefit  have  passed  the  age  of  instruction, 
and  the  stern  majesty  of  the  world  bids  them  take  their  pla- 
ces among  the  ranks  of  men? 

Bright  and  lovely  are  the  paths  of  youth,  when  education 
opens  its  storehouse  of  knowledge  before  them,  and  nature 
pours  into  the  mind  her  floods  ot  light.  But  hard,  hard,  is 
the  lot  of  the  uneducated,  and  desolate  the  road  which  they 
travel :  it  leads  through  pleasant  landscapes,  and  flowery 
fields,  but  they  see  not,  hear  not,  know  not  of  the  surpass- 
ing beauty  which  surrounds  them.  The  temple  of  Science 
shines  afar,  but  Ignorance,  like  the  dragon  of  the  Hesperides? 
crouches  before  them,  and  forbids  their  entrance.  Among 
the  multitudes  who  are  journeying  in  isruorance  to  oblivion, 
there  are  minds,  many  minds,  which,  if  favored  by  a  differ- 
ent destiny,  would  shine  like  the  sun  of  the  morning  through 
all  coming  time.  Take  from  thence  that  boy  with  the  flash- 
ing eye  and  the  lofty  brow,  but  whose  cheek  is  paled  by 
adversity,  as  if  blasted  by  the  lightning  in  its  fall  from  heav- 
en :  Take  him,  lead  him  up  to  the  temple  of  Science,  and 
educate  him  there.  Let  him  sit  at  the  feet  of  Wisdom,  while 
she  pours  into  his  mind  the  soul  of  eloquence,  poetry  and 
philosophy,  and  ihe  lore  of  ancient  men.  Does  he  sit  in  his 
place  listless  and  gaping  while  she  speaks  of  the  wonders 
of  nature,  and  the  grand  conceptions  which  formed  them? 
He  catches  every  sound,  his  ear  drinks  in  every  word,  and 
his  mind  expands  like  the  flower,  at  the  touch  of  th-3  morn- 
ing sun  beam.  He  grows  gr«at  by  intelligence,  and  strong 
for  action.  You  see  no  more  the  lonely  boy:  he  converses 
with  nature,  and  worlds  are  his  companions.     He  looks  out 


npon  the  Universe,  and  \o,  how  changed  !  the  gloom  which 
hung  over  the   landscape   is  gone.     It  appears  no  more  a 
dreary  wilderness,  but  the  garden  of  the  Almighty.     Every 
leaf,  bud  and  flower,  glow  with  the  spirit  of  the   Creator. — 
The  air,  the  earth,  the  floods,  sing  and  talk  to  him  of  God. 
He  hears  his  voice  in  the  breeze  and  in  the   storm.-     The 
morning,  the  noon,  the  evening,  darkness  and  night7s  flam- 
ing vault  open  to  him  sources  of  infinite   thought,  of  won- 
der, of  awe  and  admiration.     He  goes  into   the   world,  with 
its  disguise  and  malice  and  deep   intrigue;  he  meets  it   with 
a  son!  of  truth  braced  to  virtue  and    patriotism.     N>  more 
will  it  push  him  down  the  pale  paths  of  poverty   and  ignor- 
ance; he  looks  the  giant  in  the  face,  puts  the  hand  Upon  his 
shoulder  and  bids  him  move  at  his  will.     He  is  the  ruler  of 
men  and  the  controller  of  the  destinies  of  his    nation.    Does 
he  find  her  in  desolation,  oppressed  by  foes  and  torn  by  fac- 
tion?    He  collects  her    scattered   children   and   fe&ds  them 
forth  to  victory.     He  throws  himself  into  the  storms  of  rev- 
olution: the  angry  sea  is  stilled  and  the  waves   roll    back   to 
their  resting  place.     He  hushes  the  clamor  of  raging  tongues, 
and  quenches  the  fires  of  tempestuous  passion,-  blown   into 
fury  by  destruction's  wing!     This  is  no  picture  of  the  imag- 
ination :'  Such  men  have   been,  are  and    will  be.     I   have 
drawn  an  image,   which,  in  most   respects,   resembles  the 
great  statesman  of  this  age,  whose  star  is  M  the   West   and 
shall  shine  there  forever.     Consult  the  pages  of  history,  and 
it  will  tell  yon  with  a  stern,  impartial  tongue,  that  the  ben- 
efactors of  the  world    have  been   born   among  those  whose 
homes  are  far,  far  away  from  the  comforts,  the  luxuries  and 
magnificence  of  wealth. 

Look  upon  the  map  of  ancient  times,  and  cast  your  eye 
upon  the  spot  where  flourished  the  Republic  of  Greece. — - 
How  beautiful  and  bright  she  stands  among  the  savage  states 
which  surround  her!  She  walked,  the  queen  of  nations,  and 
her  glory  is  like  the  light  of  the  morning,  when  she  shakes 
her  kirtle  npon  the  heavens  and  strews  her  pathway  with 
jewels.  Who  toiled  at  the  task  of  raising  her  to  greatness, 
of establishing  liberty,  diffusing  national  prosperity,  and 
bringing  the  arts  to  such  perfection  that  the  authors  of  those 
deeds  appear  vastly  superior  to  the  gods  which  their  imag- 
inations created  and  endued  with  superhuman  agencies? — 
Did  wealth  and  grandeur  do  these  things?  Did  Princes 
wring  from  the  brains  of  majesty  those  wonderful  produc- 


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tions  which  have  astonished  the  world?  What  care  they  for 
such  idle  dreams?  They  love  the  flash  ot  the  diadem,  the 
iron  rule,  the  splendor  of  gold,  and  the  pomp  of  power. 

Will  this  body  adjourn,  without  maturing   any  plan  for 
founding  this  Seminary?     Will  it  throw  this  business   for- 
ward into  the  future,  without  any  form  or  shape,  as  an  idle 
speculation,  and  a  visionary  dream,  to  be  taken  up  and  dis- 
cussed when  time  and  circumstances  afford  a   favorable  op- 
portunity?    Nothing  is  gained  by   procrastination.     Has   it 
profited  you  anything?     A  proposition  so  simple   does   not 
require  years  for  discussion,  no  deeply  laid,  no  far  reaching 
understanding  to  establish  its  truth.     Masons  perfectly  agree 
in  regard  to  the  necessitv'and  utility  of  this  seminary;  hence, 
no  time  is  required  to  hush   opposition  and  conciliate   fac- 
tions.    It  is  unwise  to  consult  time  when  we  have  an  im- 
mediate duty  to  perform.     Time  mocks  the   sluggard,   and 
laughs   at  his   drowsy   dreams.     Time  !     What   time   has 
man?     The  past  is  eternity's,  the  present  may   be   man's, 
but  the  morrow  is  God's.     Time  cares    not  to  consult  with, 
man.     He  has  work  of  his  own,  and  is  busy  with  both  hands. 
See  how  his  savage  scythe  gathers  the  swathes  of  life,   and 
launches  ihem   backward  into  the   abyss.     Time  consults 
only  with  Death,  as  he  brings   the  nations  to   his  footstool 
and  hurries  the  universe  to  eternity.     While  he  gives  coun- 
sel he  kills.     Who  darees  step  by  the  side  of  Time  and  whis- 
per in  his  ear  a  matter  of  business,  lest  he  slay  the  intruder  be- 
fore the  advice  is  given?     Time  stops  not  to  talk  and  parley 
with  man.     Will  you  pursue  him,  seize  him  by  the  button 
hole,  and  bid  him  listen  to  your  plans?     He  is  swift  of  foot, 
and  he  walks  the  future  with   a  rapid    gate.     Ye  measure 
his  steps  by  the  dial's  points,  and  think  to  catch  him  at  the 
beat  of  second?,  but  the  leaps  of  the  lightning  and  the  speed 
of  thought  are  the  only  things  which  measure  time. 

It  may  be  said  that  the  destitute  of  our  order  are  educated. 
But  how,  I  ask?  Are  they  educated  as  a  Mason,  who  has 
the  means,  wishes  to  educate  and  does  educate  his  own 
children?  They  are,  perhaps,  sent  to  school  one  year,  two 
months  another  year,  three  another,  two  again,  and  thus 
ends  their  instruction.  No  child  ever  was  or  can  be  thus 
educated.  I  consider  education  to  be  that  discipline  of  the 
moral  and  intellectual  faculties  which  fits  an  individual  to 
discharge  any  duty  which  society  imposes  upon  its  mem- 
bers.    Doubtless  this  fraternity  has  some  children  growing 


up  in  perfect  ignorance,  without  even  a  knowledge  of  the 
]3ible.  May  the  Father  of  mercies  save  and  protect  the  poor 
ingnorant  children  in  the  desert  which  stretches  before! 
Has  it  come  to  this?  shall  it  be  said  that  theMasons  of  North 
Carolina  will  suffer  any  child  who  has  claims  upon  them  to 
grow  up  without  a  knowledge  of  the  Bible?  The  Bible! 
What  is  the  Bible?  The  voice  of  God,  the  philosophy  of 
creation,  the  fountain  of  all  wisdom,  the  source  of  all  good; 
the  pivot  on  which  swings  the  needle  of  hope,  that  points 
the  earth-born  heavenward;  the  wing  of  the  imagination, 
which  lifts  it  up  with  great  thoughts  like  the  pinions  of  a 
strong  eagle;  the  mine  from  which  are  wrought  the  gems 
that  twinkle  on  the  brow  of  immortal  Poesy;  thebold,  bright 
truth  which  the  naked  soul  seizes  and  invests  itself,  as  with 
the  garment,  of  an  angel;  a  diamond  cut  out  from  the  throne 
of  God,  and  placed  upon  the  front  of  a  dark  world,  to  light 
its  wayward  steps  to  eternity. 

I  have  been  often  asked  the  question,  "what  will  the  poor 
of  our  order  do  if  educated  when  they  become  men''?  What 
will  they  do,  if  uneducated,  when  they  become  men?  But 
the  uneducated  never  become  men;  the  ignorant  are  always 
children — children  are  they  in  respect  of  the  works  of  God 
and  the  creations  of  mind.  But  what  do  the  educated  poor? 
They  do  all  that  is  done.  They  become  great  lawyers, 
great  architects,  great  painters,  great  mechanics,  great  states- 
men, great  poets,  great  pnilosophers,  aye  great  in  every  thing. 
Poverty  tells  her  children,  when  educated,  they  are  rich. — 
She  still  stands  before  them  in  her  rags,  but  her  eye  is  full 
ot  energy  and  fire.  Her  arm  is  still  gaunt,  but  has  the 
strength  of  a  Titan's  to  rend  the  barriers  which  impede  the 
course  of  her  sons  to  fame  and  power.  She  is  no  longer 
like  an  agel  of  death,  cold  and  shivering  as  the  North  wind, 
but  is  rather  a  good  spirit,  and  teaches  her  children  a  thou- 
sand things.  She  points  them  to  the  wealth  and  treasure  of 
the  world,  and  bids  them  reach  forth  the  hand  and  take  it. 
Poverty,  when  her  ehildren  are  educated,  shows  them  many 
things.  She  learns  them  how  to  cut  mountains  into  beau- 
tiful columns  and  to  fashion  the  rude  rocks  into  magnificent 
temples,  that  they  may  tell  the  grandeur  of  nations  to  dis- 
tant times.  She  has  shown  them  how  to  pen  up  tire  and 
waterin  ribs  of  steel,  which  speed  the  commerce  of  States 
over  the  globe,  and  how  to  take  hold  of  lightning,  and 
chain  our  thoughts  to  his  car.  Poverty  teaches  her  educa- 
ted children  many  things.    She  points  them  bacfc  through 


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pre-existent  time,  and  shows  them  the  mighty  men  and 
demigods  of  old;  that  they  were  poor,  yet  nevertheless  formed 
savage  hordes  into  civilized  and  gigantic  Stales,  became  the 
lords  of  song,  ot  eloquence  and  philosophy,  and  thus  won 
their  way  to  immortality.  Siie  points  them  to  thegreatmen 
of  modern  date,  to  Shakespear,  Nopoleon,  Milton  and 
Washington,  the  four  giants  of  thought  and  action,  who 
have  written  their  names  in  letters  of  fire  upon  the  black 
wing  of  time;  and  says  that  they  were  poor.  She  shows 
them  Washington,  traversing  forests  and  wading  through 
swamps,  a  surveyor  of  land  in  his  early  manhood.  But  she 
shows  hirn  in  a  different  picture,  struggling  with  that  mon- 
ster and  terrible  thing,  called  a  tyrant,  wrenching  his  hand 
from  the  throat  of  Liberty  and  placing  his  broad,  brave  bo- 
som between  her  and  her  tormentor;  lifting  up  a  State  which 
had  fallen,  wasted  and  bleeding,  and  placing  her  feet  upon  a 
foundation  so  strong  and  deep  that  she  has  grownup  the  glo- 
ry and  wonder  of  the  world.  But  I  have  not  time  to  tell  all 
the  educated  poor  have  done  and  can  do,  They  teach  all 
our  schools,  fill  all  our  colleges  with  professors,  and  our 
churches  with  the  ministers o( God.  They  build  allourtowns 
and  villages,  all  our  vessels  of  commerce,  and  navies  of  war. 
But  what  does  Wealth  ?  Nothing,  nothing  at  all;  she  stands 
with  her  arms  folded  upon  her  bosom,  tricked  out  in  her 
jewelry  and  golden  petticoats,  and  looks  on  to  see  Poverty 
work.  But  she  pours  into  the  lap  of  Poverty  her  gold,  sur- 
renders her  possessions,  gives  up  her  houses  and  her  lands 
and  her  golden  petticoats  also.  How  does  Poverty  serve  her 
uneducated  children?  She  stands  before  them,  stern  and 
terrible,  she  will  give  them  no  "did,  no  comfort,  no  cheer. — 
She  pushes  them  into  every  hole  and  every  ditch :  she 
plucks  their  rags,  and  tells  them  that  the  North  wind  is 
stormy  and  fierce,  and  cold,  and  that  no  body  cares.  She 
talks  to  them  all  day  of  want,  ot  hunger  and  famine,  and 
haunts  their  pillow  at  night;  she  tells  them  of  grog  shops,  of 
rum  and  of  crime,  and  makes  them  believe  that  the  very 
Devil  is  their  best  friend.  Thus  talks  Poverty  in  two  ways. 
Thus  talks  Poverty  with  her  double  face  and  Janus  mouths, 
and  she  tells  you  educate  your  children,  and  I  will  lift  them 
up  to  fame,  and  power,  and  distinction.  But  leave  them 
uneducated,  and  I  will  crush  them  and  crowd  them  down 
to  ruin. 

It  is  essentially  necessary  that  republics  should  be  intel- 
ligent.   For  if  oppression  makes  republics,  ignorance  makes 


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monarchies.  An  ignorant  republic  is  an  uncaged  tiger,  and 
falls  into  the  pit  which  ambition  digs.  An  oppressed  na- 
tion is  the  tiger  caged,  which  having  learned  its  strength, 
rends  the  bolts  and  tears  its  master.  An  ignorant  people 
will  support  no  government,  whatever  be  its  character.  An 
intelligent  nation  never  were  enslaved,  nor  can  they  be,  and 
will  submit  to  any  just  and  equitable  government,  rather 
than  endure  the  torments  of  anarchy  and  misrule.  The 
multitudes  of  Europe  were  never  intelligent;  consequently 
they  have  been  oppressed  and  enslaved  for  centuries.  Ku- 
lers  have  weilded  the  sceptre  of  cruelty,  despised  the  people, 
neglected  their  education,  and  driven  them  forth  hungry 
and  naked. 

Oh  how  the  poor  miserable  multitude  have  suffered!  What 
have  they  endured  ?  What  have  they  not  endured?  what 
wrongs,  what  poverty,  what  ignorauce,  what  tyranny,  what 
horrid  despotism?  Loaded  with  taxes,  starvingfor  bread,  freez* 
ing  from  cold,  goaded  and  tormented  by  that  Promethiau  vul- 
ture the  rapacity  of  the  law,  they  are  driven  to  fury,  shiv- 
ering with  rage,  drunk  with  passion,  and  mad  with  grief. 

But  they  have  learned  their  strength;  and  the  vengeance  of 
ages  rises  up  like  night,  and  covers  the  land  with  darkness. 
Rebelion  lifts  its  head,  War  mounts  his  iron  charriot,  the 
nations  go  forth  to  battle,  the  thrones  of  Europe  are  shaken, 
— and  the  proud  old  monarchies  which  sit  in  the  shadow  of 
ages  are  tottering,  leaning,  rushing  headlong.  The  cries  of 
suffering  hare  ascended  to  heaven,  and  the  Almighty  hath 
sent  forth  the  Angel,  to  pour  out  the  vials  of  his  anger,  to 
smite,  and  to  kill,  until  Justice  and  Equity  sit  in  their  places 
and  the  nations  are  ruled  in  righteousness.  Thus  the  gov- 
ernors of  the  world  are  punished  when  they  neglect  the  de- 
crees of  Providence,  and  steel  their  hearts  to  mercy:  And 
the  very  instruments  upon  which  they  rest  for  security  turn 
to  darts  and  daggers,  to  pierce  and  destroy  them.  For  Heav- 
en and  Earth  have  sworn,  that  if  a  ruler  rests  the  stability 
of  his  government  upon  the  stupidity,  and  ignorance  of  the 
people,  and  forms  a  breast-plate  of  defence  irom  such  mate- 
rial, it  shall  grow  into  a  robe  of  fire,  and  like  the  fabled 
cloak  of  Dejanira,  wrap  itself  around,  adhere  and  burn,  un- 
til it  destroys  the  monster  who  wears  it.  How  awful  is  the 
vengeance  of  nations,  and  how  bitter  the  vials  of  popular 
fury,  when  poured  upon  the  head  of  kings! 

Ye  monart  hs,  ye  haughty  despots  and  gloomy  tyrants  ! 
ye  have  rode  the  world  in  war's  thunder  march,  and  buckled 


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the  nations  to  the  car  of  tyranny  and  th 2  yoke  of  ignorance*,, 
but  the  vice,  and  crime,  and  stupidity,  which  ye  planted, 
covered  with  the  ashes  of  cities,  and  watered  with  the  blood 
of  men.  spring  up  the  teeth  of  lions,  and  the  fangs  of  ser- 
pents, which  sting  your  hearts,  and  rend  your  vitals.  Ye 
monarchs  and  rulers  of  men  1  how  lonely  sits  the  soul  in  its 
house  of  clay,  where  ye  have  locked  out  the  light  of  heaven, 
and  left  it  by  itself  in  desolation  and  darkness,  to  listen  to 
the  wants  and  cries  of  the  body,  the  taunts  of  pride,  and  the 
scorn  of  power!  and  thus  in  darkness  and  in  chains,  ye  think 
to  bridle  it  with  the  bit  of  horses,  and  lash  it  to  subjection 
with  whips  of  scoipions.  But  the  angry  soul  will  not  be 
briddled;  in  its  enraged  energies,  it  becomes  a  fiend,  the 
destroyerand  avenger,  the  Medea  of  the  myth  and  the  fable, 
the  rider  of  the  charriot  with  the  winged  dragons,  over  burn- 
ing palaces  and  ruined  thrones.  Such  were  they  who  deso- 
lated revolutionary  France,  wrung  her  bosom,  tore  out  her 
heart,  and  threw  it  bleeding  to  the  earth.  But  let  me  not 
speak  of  the  French  revolution.  Who  can  picture  it?  Who 
can  describe  the  horrors  of  that  day.  when  "France  got 
drunk  with  blood  to  vomit  crime"?  Does  the  poet  think  he 
can  do  it,  because  he  dips  his  pen  in  the  sun  beam,  and 
writes  with  the  point  of  a  diamond,  because  he  can  seize  up- 
on the  arts  and  subtleties  of  language,  and  bid  his  imagina- 
tion summon  shapes  from  Hell?  Such  monstrous  facts  rise 
from  the  earth,  as  scare  the  imagination  and  legions  of  dark- 
ness, and  the  man  of  fancy  is  all  earth  again. 

The  historian  sits  down,  and  writes  of  the  shock  of  armies, 
the  rag«  of  battle,  of  cities,  steeped  in  crime,  and  red  with 
blood;  of  the  assassin,  in  the  bed-ehamber  of  mothers  at  mid- 
night, of  the  knife,  the  plunge  and  the  hush  of  death  :  And 
then,  as  if  wearied  with  the  details  of  desolation  and  cruelty, 
he  cries,  who  can  pnint  the  horrors  of  that  day,  wnen  lust, 
revenge,  hatred,  ambition  and  all  the  savage  passions,  which 
haunt  the  breast,  swarmed  from  the  heart  and  assumed  the 
sh?ipe  of  monsters,  which  struck  down  the  people,  with  the 
poinard  and  battle  axe,  until  the  war  god  ol  modern  Europe 
put  the  bit  of  destiny  in  the  jaws  of  France,  and  turned  her 
tremendous  energies  against  the  world?  From  whence, 
will  lenrn  the  rulers  of  m°n,  that  ignorance  and  tyranny 
invignnte,  ruin  and  annihilate  nations?  Let  the  past  speak 
to  the  present.  Come  forth  ye  extinct  nations,  and  tell  to 
the  present,  the  cnuse  of  your  ruin!  Come  forth,  ye  old 
empires  of  Asia,  from  the  hover  of  oblivion's  wing,  and  swear 


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to  the  rulers  of  men;  swear  by  the  silence  of  the  desert, 
where  ye  once  flourisned,  that  the  eye  of  the  owl  glistens 
where  stood  the  throne  --and  blazed  the  diadem;  and  the 
hyena  chafes  his  shoulder  upon  the  column  where  leaned 
the  queens  of  monarchs,  because  princes  swayed  the  sceptre 
of  sin,  and  hampered  the  people  with  oppression  and  ignor- 
ance, so  that  ye  were  swept  away,  by  the  tide  of  invasion, 
like  dust  before  the  whirlwind.  Savage  nations  cannot  be 
enslaved,  because  their  habitations  change  like  the  sands  of 
Africa.  They  say  to  tyrants  erect  your  throne  and  post 
your  janizaries  upon  the  spot  where  smoke  the  ashes  of  our 
last  night's  encampment.  Our  possessions  are  in  the 
strength  of  the  war  horse,  the  speed  of  the  arrow,  the  winds 
are  our  companions,  and  the  desert  our  home.  Prudence, 
caution,  endurance  and  power  in  battle,  are  the  qualities 
which  give  distinction;  and  Nature  tells  them,  if  they  culti- 
vate these,  they  obey  the  laws,  which  she  imposes  upon 
their  condition  in  life,  and  shall  live  free  and  independent 
in  the  wilderness  which  she  has  made  their  dwelling  place, 
Civilized  nations  inhabit  countries  with  fixed  boundaries. — 
If  the  people  are  intelligent,  they  strangle  tyranny  in  the 
cradle;  and  say  to  foreign  foes,  our  school  houses  are  our 
forts,  and  our  walls  the^ hearts  of  brave  men.  The  arts  of 
education,  and  the  power  of  intellect,  are  the  qualities  which 
confer  destinction  :  and  Nature  says  to  them  cultivate  these 
and  you  obey  the  laws  which  I  impose  upon  your  condition 
in  life,  and  shall  live  independent  at  home,  and  respected 
abroad.  The  great  republic  of  North  America,  is  the  only 
country  on  the  face  of  the  globe  of  this  kind.  But  when 
the  few  walk  in  the  light  of  education,  and  the  multitude  in 
darkness,  Avarice,  Cupidity,  and  Ambition,  sit  down  «*ith 
the  former,  to  play  the  game  of  life,  with  poor,  blind,  erring 
Ignorance.  In  this  contest  education  and  intellect,  and  not 
the  strong  arm,  win  the  victory.  The  game  goes  on,  con- 
tinues for  years;  Ignorance  loses,  is  stripped  of  every  thing, 
and  goes  away  and  lies  down  upon  her  bed  of  straw,  miser- 
able, exhausled,  and  naked.  Her  sons  die  with  hunger,  or 
are  seized,  and  driven  away  before  her  face  to  whet  the 
sword,  grind  the  axe,  and  forge  t£e  chains  of  tyranny,  which 
now  spread  over  the  land  a  gloom  heavy  and  deep — fills 
it  with  bayonets  and  taxes,  and  gains  strength  and  size,  un- 
til despotism  rises  up,  dark  as  ever,  and  cruel  as  the  sea.  It 
grasps  the  reins  of  power  and  keeps  them;  braces  its  enor- 
mous feet,   with  the  boots  of  battle,  holds,  in  its    hand  the 


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hungry  sword,  a"d  sports  with  life  and  death,  like  school 
hoys  mowing  thistles  down.  No  imagination,  however  swift 
in  flight  or  collected  in  energy,  can  draw  a  picture,  which 
shall  show  upon  the  canvass  all  the  atrocious  features  of 
despotism.  The  governments  of  Europe,  with  but  one  or 
two  exceptions,  are  of  the  above  description.  And  now,  af- 
ter the  nations  of  Europe  have  suffered  so  much,  and  endur- 
ed .so  lonsr,  who  says  they  are  wrong  in  their  terrific  and 
mighty  anger?  1  do  not.  Nor  do  1  say  they  are  right:  let 
God  judge  the  people  and  their  rulers.  I  only  ask,  who 
shall  quiet  them?  Can  ye  chain  the  hurricane?  or  stay  the 
thunderbolt  with  your  hand?  and  who  shall  stay  the  starv- 
ing, untaught  millions  in  their  hour  ot  yengeancc,  when 
they  put  on  the  armour  of  ruin,  and  harness  the  steeds  of 
dt'st ruction  ?  I  wish  the  nations  might  gain  their  freedom, 
without  the  effusion  of  blood.  But  the  price  of  liberty  is 
blood.  And  is  this  wonderful?  All  excellence  is  dearly 
purchased.  The  soul  was  bought  from  sin, -.not  by  human 
blood,  but  by  that  which  flowed  from  immortal  veins.  If 
the  rulers  ot  nun  who  act  the  tyrant,  will  learn  in  no  other 
manner,  let  the  scourge  of  experience  teach  them,  that  ig- 
norance and  oppression  are  plants  that  twine  together,  em- 
body and  grow  the  upas,  which  poisons  the  people,  until 
struck  by  the  lightning  of  revolution  and  anarchy,  it  burns 
to  cinders,  and  moulders  to  ashes,  from  which  soars  the  ea- 
gle, the  bird  of  republics,  with  his  bolts  of  thunder  and  eye 
of  power.  0 

Those  who  are  endeavoring  to  change  the  face  of  society, 
and  to  establish  civil  liberty  in  Europe,  are  editors,  poets, 
orators  and  philosophers.  In  the  first  rank  are  the  editors. 
Many  of  them  have  risen  from  the  people,  and  their  hearts 
and  sympathies  are  with  those,  with  whom  they  have  en- 
dured wrong,  and  suffered  adversity.  Many  of  them  have 
wrought  at  the  type,  and  the  wheel,  and  have  seen  sorrow- 
ful and  bitter  days.  They  unroll  their. sheets  to  the  people, 
and  show  them  the  solemn  lies,  by  which  they  have  been 
cheated,  and  the  foul  wrongs  which  have  been  done  them. 
They  rend  the  veil,  which  hides  the  vast  and  gloomy  des- 
potisms, and  show  the  defoimity,  and  wickedness  which 
surround  the  throne.  Their  keen  intellects  are  swift  to 
pierce  the  counsels  of  mysterious  cabinets,  and  to  hunt  out 
tyranny  in  its  most  secret  places.  Philosophers  bring  their 
massive  intellects,  and  metaphysical  machinery  into  the 
field,  and  weave  a  web  in  which  tyrants  get  entangled  and 


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are  choked  to  death.     Poets  send  from  the   prison   and   the 
garret  their  holts  also,  which    "fall  in  fiery  shafts,  and   are 
gathered  up  by  the  multitude,  and  hurled  at  the  croWns  of 
kings."     I  believe  that  revolution  will  march   onward,  until 
the  people  roll  back  the  tide  of  despotism,  and  the  eagJe  flag 
floats  on  the  bulwarks  of  Europe  :     For  the  hearts  of  greal 
nations  are  beginning  to  beat  with  the  strong  bounding  blood 
of  Liberty's  pulse.     They  will  no  longer  listen  to  the   voice 
of  kings;  and  therefore  the  shocks  of  the   earthquake  must 
continue,  for  the  grasp  of  the  sceptre  will  only  yield  to   the 
wrench  of  armies;  nor  will  the   roots   of  thrones  give  way 
but  to  the  strokes  of  the  battle  axe,  and  the  crush  ot  cannon. 
Oirrown  glorious  republic  !  who  can  think  of  its  origin  and 
moral  influence  upon  mankind,   without   emotions  of  deep, 
deep,  gratitude  to  him  who  planted  and  has  watched  over  it, 
and  raised  it  so  high,  that  its  splendor  fills  the  universe?     It 
shines  far  away  over  the  waters,  into  the  dark  prison  house 
of  the  East,  where  the  nations  work  by  its  light,  while  filing! 
the  chain,  and  drawing  the  bolt;  and   glows  into   the   win- 
dows of  the  palaces  uf  kings,   blinding   the   eye  of  tyranny, 
and  blazing  with  such  effulgent  brightness,  that  the   light  of 
thrones,  and  the  diamond  work  of  crowns,  emit  a   pale   and 
ghastly  glare.     While  such  horrid  shapes  sta«d  out  upon  the 
wall,  that  the  hounds  of  war,  who  crouch  at  the   feet  of  ty« 
rants,  and  hem  them  in  with  steel,  aie  frightened  from   their 
places,  and  become  the  first  to    point  the   shaft,    and    wing' 
the  ball,  which  hiss  and  whistle  through  the  nests    of  those 
hornets,  who  have  despoiled  the  industrious,  and  driven  them 
forth  to  the  winter  and  the  storm.     Our  own  great  republic  ? 
with  its  millions  of  intelligent    freemen,  its    president,  and 
thirty  governors,  the  sun  and    the   stars,  which    reflect   the 
majesty  of  the  nation   and  the  glory  of   the  States,    may    it 
stand  forever  and  the  light  of  its  countenance  grow  brighter 
and  brighter,  like  an  unextiifguisbable  fire!     And  may  earth's 
swarming  multitudes  join  her  song  of  thanksgiving  to  the 
King  of  nations,  while  the    despotisms   of  Europe  and   the 
barbarian  monarchies  of  Asia  are  the  dust  of  the    past,  to  be 
stirred  but  by  the  rake  of  the  historian,  or  ransacked  by  the 
imagination,  "to  point  a  moral,  or  adorn  a  tale." 


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'PLAN  FOR  RAISING  SCHOOL  FUND. 

1.  That  there  be  a  board  of  Trustees  immediately  constituted,  for  the 
School,  consisting  of  three  to  be  appointed  by  the  Grand  Lodge,  and  on© 
to  be  appointed  by  each  subordinate  Lodge  under  its  jurisdiction,  who  shall 
hold  an  annua!  meeting  at  the  time  and  place  of  the  Annual  Communication 
of  the  Grand  Lodge. 

2.  That  the  subordinate  Lodges  be  authorised  and  directed,  at  the  earliest 
day  practicable,  to  meet  and  appoint  their  trustees,  respectively,  by  the  selec- 
tion of  one  member  for  that  purpose,  from  each  of  their  own  bodies. 

3.  That  it  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  three  Trustees  appointed  by  the  Grand 
Lodge  to  discharge  any  duties  required  of  them  by  the  Grand  Lodge,  or  the 
Board  of  Trustees,  as  an  Executive  School  Committee. 

7.  That  the  Trustee  of  each  subordinate  Lodge  shall,  under  the  direction 
of  his  Lodge,  and  in  such  manner  as  the  Lodge  may  prescribe,  proceed  im- 
mediately.to  secuie  from  the  members  of  his  Lodge,  or  any  other  individuals 
disposed  to  contribute,  such  voluntary  subscriptions  as  they  may  be  disposed 
to  make  for  the  purpose  of  establishing  the  school ;  that  he  shall  report  the 
amount  of  subscriptions  to  the  Lodge,  and  the  cash  collected  thereon,  which 
shall,  whenever  it  amounts  to  ten  dollars,  be  forthwith  transmitted  to  the 
Grand  Treasurer  at  Raleigh. 

5.  That  the  subscriptions  be  made  payable  as  follows: — One  fifth  cash, 
and  the  remainder  in  four  equal  annual  instalments,,  and  that  notes  be  taken 
upon  them,  conforming  thereto,  made  payable  to  the  Trustees  of  the  Charity 
School  fund  of  the  Grand  Lodge  of  North  Carolina  ;  and  that  they  be  kept 
by  the  Trustee  of  each  Lodge  aforesaid  ;  and  collected,  when  due,  and  re. 
ported  to  the  Lodge  as  above,  or,  if  not  collected,  handed  over  to  his  succes- 
sor, or  some  other  person  as  may  be  hereafter  designated. 

6.  That  each  subordinate  Lodge  be  requested  to  subscribe,  at  their  discre- 
tion, such  amount  as  they  may  deem  it  prudent  or  proper  to  spare  from  the 
fund  of  the  Lodge  for  this  purpose — to  be  forwarded,  or  such  amount  thereof 
as  they  may  think  proper  then  to  pay,  to  the  Grand  Treasurer,  at  the  next 
Annual  Communication;  and  the  remainder,  if  any,  in  similar  annual  in- 
stalments. 0 

7.  That  the  Grand  Lodge  make  such  annual  appropriation  to  this  object  a* 
her  funds  and  the  other  demands  upon  her  resources,  will  allow. 

8.  That  the  Executive  Committee,  of  whom  the  Grand  Treasurer  shall  be 
one,  shall  put  the  monies,  as  fast  as  received,  if  practicable,  in  some  safe  and 
profitable  investment,  from  which  6  per  cent,  intetest  will  be  realized. 

9.  The  Trustees  _or  Executive  Committee  shall  be  authorised  also  to  ro- 
ceive  any  donations  that  maybe  ma:le  by  charitable  individuals,  other  than 
regular  subscriptions,  and  cause  them  to  be  likewise  invested,  by  the-  some 
Committee,  with  the  other  monies,  in  Bank  Stock,  in  notes  of  individuals, 
on  mortgage  of  real  estate  and  personal  security,  or  in  State  Bonds. 

10.  That  the  Grand  Lecturer  be  required  to  explain  this  subject  to  evey 
Lodge  he  may  visit,  and  urge  upon  them  the  necessity  of  liberal  contributions 
on  the  part  of  the  Lodges  and  of  individual  members,  in  order  that  the  be^ 
nevolent  designs  of  the  Grand  Lodge  may  be  speedily  and  successfully  ac- 
complished. 

11.  That  each  subordinate  Lodge  in  the  State  be  requirfd  to  contribute  ac- 
cording to  her  ability,  and  to  take  such  steps  and  adopt  such  regulations  a* 
may  be  necessary  to  fulfil  the  duties  imposed  upon  them  respectively. 


